REGION BASED TECHNIQUE FOR ACCURATELY PREDICTING MEMORY ACCESSES

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor comprising a page tracker buffer (PTB), the PTB including a plurality of entries to store an address to a cache page and to store a signature to track an access to each cache line of the cache page, and a PTB handler, the PTB handler to l...

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Main Authors KUMAR, Akhilesh, SOARES, Livio, CHERUKURI, Naveen, AZIMI, Mani
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 11.09.2019
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor comprising a page tracker buffer (PTB), the PTB including a plurality of entries to store an address to a cache page and to store a signature to track an access to each cache line of the cache page, and a PTB handler, the PTB handler to load entries into the PTB and to update the signature. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20110798876